[oi-dev] Post 151 development

[Nick Zivkovic]

For what it's worth:

I use a Mac on a laptop, OpenIndiana 147 on my ThinkPad and
OpenIndiana 151 on a desktop.

I've kept my thinkpad laptop on for weeks at a time. I've kept my
desktop (when it was running OI 147) on for _over a year_.

Both of those machines have 4GB of RAM. The desktop has an Core 2 Duo
and the laptop has an intel i3.

My macbook has an intel i7 and 4GB of RAM.

I've had to reboot my macbook at _least_ once every 2 days. If it is
running for 3 days it begins to swap like crazy and the spinning disk
of doom appears.

If Mac OS X, the _premiere_ desktop OS, can have this kind of
instability (which is what it is), then I think OI is ahead of the
curve as far as stability goes. Definitely trailing in user experience
and aesthetics, but really, who cares? Do you want a show-horse or a
work-horse?

Just my 2 cents.

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz
> <jose.marcio.mc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> ken mays wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 1. Is the latest JDS build something wanted by OI users and developers?
>>>
>>> This was one of the issues brought up, yet are we looking for a build of
>>> the most latest bits? This was done a few months ago for a build kit ISO  so
>>> the work can transfer over.
>>>
>>> This way oi developers and users can test and review the latest JDS build
>>> and msy help redolve some issues in modernization of the distro as mentioned
>>> elsewhere.
>>
>>
>> Although me too I'm one of those dinosaurs ...
>>
>> My needs are just a OS stable enough to run on a infrastructure server.
>>
>> Although I understand people wanting a full operational desktop environment,
>> I don't care too much. For me (but it's just a personnal opinion), I want a
>> openindiana environment just to be able to have a multi-windowing system (in
>> fact many terminals on the console).
>>
>> For the moment, I work on two workstations, one running an old version of
>> Solaris and the other running Linux (a laptop), but I surely can switch one
>> of them to OpenIndiana.
>>
>> All this to say that, IMHO, it's important to release, as soon as possible,
>> a stable "server version". A stable desktop version may be released later.
>>
>> It's not a problem for me to add another "desktop based workstation" to work
>> on and test.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> José-Marcio
>
> Not sure if anybody noticed, but OI 151 was released 1 year ago. Been
> running OI 151 as my primary desktop for 365 days. The definition of
> stable is relative, I'd say...
>
> Francois
>
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